The little voice that says shining my sink is unneccessary...

[wannabe]

... IS RIGHT!

BLAH! This is why I never get past page one of the flylady. That and her "start every single day by cleaning your toilet".

Not. on. your. nellie.

[KMK_Mama]

I on the other hand shine my sink pretty much every day. I hate seeing a dirty sink. The rest of my house is messy, but at least I have a shiny sink!

[KariM]

How do you shine an enameled sink from the 1920's?

Seriously, my life doesn't fit into flylady's lifestyle at all!

It works great for some folks, though.

[texaspeach]

I think it's just about giving yourself a sense of accomplishment.

[gargirl]

My sink is not always shiny but Flylady keeps me from giving up and from beating myself up all the time.

I love her, she saved my sanity and made my home a nicer place to live, despite the fact that I still don't wear my shoes much.

[jlwagner]

Originally Posted by KariM

How do you shine an enameled sink from the 1920's?

I hear ya! Although I do shine my faucet - I like it when there's no water spots.

[MysteryMama]

Originally Posted by KariM

How do you shine an enameled sink from the 1920's?

I was wondering the same thing...

[ItyBty]

Originally Posted by KariM

How do you shine an enameled sink from the 1920's?

Depends on how bad it is. Mine is about the same age, and without any chipped enamel, so my aim is to just remove the grey-ish marks from pots n pans on the white enamel. The only thing that works easily for me is powdered scruby stuff and elbow grease. Not that my sink is shiny that often...

[UUMom]

I don't do Flylady, and I delete any posts that people send me that originate from her. However, I hate dirty sinks with crawling bacteria, and dirty toilets are even more disgusting. Even without Flylady I just clean them (wow Holy cow!) , or Dh cleans them.

Gross toilets = public gas stations, and I won't cross that hideous line.

[wannabe]

Oh, flylady has some good ideas, like cleaning/decluttering for x minutes, and hot spots, but the sink thing is just ludicrous! Far better to spend that time on wiping the fridge handle or polishing the kettle.

My sink is always clean - dishes sitting in it rather than next to it is second only to wet sponges on my list of OCD-despised things. BUT - wipe it with a tea towel every time you fill a glass of water? Wipe it with olive oil after every load of dishes, so you have to use more detergent to get it ready for the next load? OCD, and it takes one to know one. That is neither sane nor normal.

[Throkmorton]

I never shine my sink. That's DH's job! Of course, that means he has to do the dishes first.

Instead, i use www.chorebuster.net to give myself a list of chores to do every day

[Leta]

I have a 1920's enameled porcelain sink, and I shine it. :
Maybe I'm doing it wrong? I use baking soda and a green scrubby. Then I rub it with a dry towel. I do this once a day, after dinner dishes.

For me, the shiny sink thing means the dishes are done. If the dishes are done, chances are the kitchen is clean. As goes the kitchen, so goes the rest of the house, at least around here.

[GenB]

I agree with Leta. My shiny sink means the rest of the kitchen is clean and orderly, allowing me to better cope with the often chaotic and emotionally charged life I have with two teenagers. The trick is not to spend so much time on it. I throw some vinegar in and toss in some baking soda. Let it fizzle and rub it around for a sec then rinse. It literally takes less than 3 seconds but what it does for my menopausal emotional self is priceless!!! (Who is flylady and how do I find her?)

[Alkenny]

I could never get past her reminding me to put my shoes on! I hardly EVER wear shoes, and NEVER in the house!

[SugarAndSun]

She lost me on the shoe thing too! Why on earth would I wear shoes when I don't have to? I, very happily, can lift and spread all ten toes. Why would I cramp them into shoes? Further, shoes in the house gross me out! Why would I want shoes that walking in a public restroom in my kitchen? My kids eat off that floor.

I do scrub the sink after doing dishes to keep it clean. The toilet is another story though.

[lucyem]

The idea behind a shiny sink was I thought to get you in one good clean habit. Basically the number 1 mess in your house is dishes so by cleaning your sink every evening makes sure you are on top of that one endless job. I rarely have a clean sink. I like a lot of her ideas. I cannot imagine keeping up with them all. But I do try and incorporate some of her more basic stuff like cleaning the shower while you are in it kind of thing.

As for enameled sinks there is this fabulous enamel cleaner called Astonish. It is from the UK. I have some to clean my Aga stove. But I found it worked fabulously on my enameled sink. Cleans off those grey streaks from pans - no elbow grease needed. The best was my circa 1900 enameled sink that I thought had damage to the enamel. It cleaned up what ended up being water mineral deposits that nothing else could get off.
Its biodegradable and nontoxic. There has to be a US equivalent but I have yet to find it and am almost out of my Astonish

[HipGal]

I totally quit flylady because of that shiny sink thing. It just isn't a priority to me. Why get rid of water spots when we will just use the sink again in 5 or 10 minutes? I feel more accomplished when I vacuum the house or finish the dishes or finish* the laundry.

Plus following Flylady seems like I need to be focused on cleaning all day. Yuck!


* Please note, the laundry is never really "finished"...

[christyc]

Originally Posted by gargirl

My sink is not always shiny but Flylady keeps me from giving up and from beating myself up all the time.

I love her, she saved my sanity and made my home a nicer place to live, despite the fact that I still don't wear my shoes much.

:

I usually find that NOW if I go to shine my sink, I usually get carried away and end up spending an extra 10 minutes cleaning the kitchen counters, wiping around the stove one more time, and sweeping out the kitchen. I think it's more about building a new mindset than just the shiny sink!

[blizzard_babe]

I like certain aspects of her stuff... making things "habit" is VERY important to me because I'm slightly (OK, more than slightly) ADD and if the house gets really messy I have trouble just cleaning parts of it. I like her suggestion of doing a little bit, consistently, every day. Focusing on "hot spots" is good because both DF and I are "droppers" when it comes to small items.

But like anything else in this world, it doesn't apply perfectly to any one person. I take a few things from her and leave what I don't think works for me.

[Pepperdove]

The shiny sink thing was what taught me to not leave the dishes in the sink all night and then keep leaving them the next day too.

Now, my idea of shiny sink is a clean sink. I have never done her technique with bleacha nf boining water and all that. Goodness, I don't even own bleach!

Cleaning hte potty with shampoo is brilliant, tho, I think DH is dismissive of it, but hey ! it works!